Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-08-23


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London Correspondent 70 Baltimore sun.
len Edinburgh for London In one OF the
fsse exproa traiua Flying as the rase OF nfsy
milea On hour past cities, towns, Villages
neids and wstsrcourssa, ! was struck with
the gsls appearance Of svsrything. No one
secmed 70 b ct work, but there was con.
tiuuous succession Of crowds Of men, women
end children giving themselves up 70 enjoy
msnt Of one or another character. Rural
England has been aptly described - one
vest flower garden. So Il sesmed. The
beautiful green fields stretching far and wide,
bounded by the tastefully trimmed hedges
- clean - . new pin, the roads oil In the
ever unpretsnding, with ia little we'll kept
lawn In 'front.' its flower bedA its windows
filled with pceted plants and, more often than
otherwise, miniature aquarium. In all the
towns - the train dashed ~ could be seen
the squariums and II there was ever 90 small
. piece Of ground In front 1t wss radiant with
many colored leaves and buds.
WHAT A BANK HOLIDAY MEANS.
The scene the whole day long was made
more attractive by the presence Of the gay
and happy throngs, who overfiowing the
paved streets, driited out into the arena OF
nature, and under forest shade and BY run.
ming stream made = panorama which II
might readily he fsncied was the whole OF
EpVland converted into one vast picnic
Literally, this might be said with truth, for
Monday Was one of the four annual bank
holidays On these four holidays the shop
keepers and their families and the entire
mass Of working people in town and country
give themselves up TO unrestrained pleae-
ura Our Fourth Of July is - tame
- tame can be compared with IN
Euglish bank holiday. do not think, after
passing the Scottish border on Monday, that
our train traversed one mile that groups OF
would have 6een simply impossible TO count
the tennis the cricket and the archery
grounds. which were fairly alive with spec
tators and players. On every moesy bank
by whose sides river or rivulet glided boys
and girls with rod and reel were watching.
London poured out It's countless thousands
Of idlers and toilers who made OF every
suburban and seaside resort within reaching
distance moving hive OF hustle and an ims-
ton. At night gorgeous displays of fire.
the % - night % by rail and water .hoss
who went out from tho city were
returning. These Bank" holidays, %
called because by law the banks close on the
days named, are peculiarly the holidays
Of the working people The closing OF the
species of business all over the kingdom.
Farm lAborers in America a. rule pay bui
little account to the Fourth OF July, our
great national holiday, but . farm labofer OF
any other lsborer in England, excep. ol
| course, the printers, would ss soon thiuk ol
| working on Sunday - on . bank holiday
Employers, how ever, always dread the sp-
prosch OF Q bank holiday, for with them Il
means . prsctical arrangement Of business fol
| about week. At least employers claim this
| and any shopke< per, any tailor or ooOtmake
| during the week that follows bank holiday
thinks he has made oil the excuse that II
| necessary to Q customer for the non.fulhll
| ment Of q contract or promise when he says
"On, Monday WAS bank holiday and car
/ get no work out OF my people until mex
week" This is the excuse made hundred
times day tor every day OF last week 4
Americans in London who have given order
| to tailors for clothing.
IT'S ENGLIsH, YOU KNOW.
The mania which Americans in Europ
have tor ordering clothes from London tail
ors il remarkable. Scarcely one OF them get
70 London but the very next day he marche
around to some fashionable tailor and he
himself measured for one, two, three, an,
sometimes half dozen suits Then, whel
| he gets home he tells ever one he sees, will
. conscious cir OF superiority, 81 had tins
l suit made by 10 and % Of London" Thi
l custom seems the more extraOrdinary b
cause there can be no possiole controversy
| to the fact that the we'll dressed American
the best dressed man in the world, and the
are nowhere else such perfect masters
| their trade as the fashionable tailOrs In q
United States The London tsilors can,
| course, sell one clothes much cheaper ths
| tb6 same material tse purchased Tor m
| msde up In the United States, but they new
/ hesitatS, when they think the Amerlcs
with whom they are dealing Ii silly enOug
to stand IL, to AK a, much rs he would b
| charged at home. The London tailor takes
| great many measures, and IL you are as psI
ticulsr as to wish anything like decent I'll
| 1t will be best to try on his clothes sewers
times before you fiusliy sccept them.
Gen. Simon Cameron, who came over Tor
| flying TRIP, tells me that he Is having q mos
enjoyable time. He says that the weight {
his sS years is quite easy to be borne, an
does not interfere In the least with his pleas
ura He IL going around just a. actively Q
| the men Of half his sxe, aud, ~ he says, ha
not refused single III vitstion.